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Bell trial comes to bizarre end [Video discussion]

Times reporters Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives will discuss the case in a video chat at 5:45 p.m.

A judge declared a mistrial on all outstanding counts, saying “all hell has broken loose” with the deeply divided jury.

An exasperated Judge Kathleen Kennedy drew the case to a close after a bizarre day in which one juror asked to reconsider the guilty verdicts reached Wednesday. Then, an anonymous juror passed a note to Kennedy urging her to “remind the jury to remain respectful and not to make false accusations and insults to one another.”